Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media report them inadequately. We blog here because our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, New York, Madrid, London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening and why. This ongoing war is killing us.

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

5-Aug-14: Europe and its Moslems through an Israeli journalist's eyes

Yehezkeli and the Moslem mayor of a European city

Israel's
Channel 10 has been promoting the re-showing this week of an incisive and, in
some ways, quite unique documentary series that looks closely - from right
inside - at some aspects of Europe's Islamic communities.

We wrote about it in Septemberand October2012 when the series first appeared
on Israeli screens.

Entitled "Allah Islam" in Hebrew, and "Muslims in Europe" in the sub-titled version, it is a collaboration between Israeli
film director and journalist David Deri, and Zvi
Yehezkeli who is Israeli Channel 10's senior news reporter on
Arab affairs.

Having been made principally for an Israeli audience, the narration and
subtitles are in Hebrew, and so is the general viewpoint; the makers are clearly addressing an Israeli audience and examining concerns that Israelis have about Europe. Don't be put off by the thought that this is an examination of Israel-specific issues. Mostly, it's not. As
we wrote two years ago, the series deals in an extremely effective way with the
mutual interaction of European society and a very particular immigrant group. Our sense is that as important as this issue is for many, and especially for Europeans, it gets too much of the wrong sort of attention.

The fact that
Yehezkeli, a fluent speaker of Palestinian-accented Arabic, succeeds in passing
himself off as a non-Jewish Palestinian Arab is key to its success - and, we think, to its unique perspective. We frankly cannot imagine a made-in-USA documentary that
could penetrate as deeply and cleverly into the very loaded subject matter.

To be sure, it does not pretend to take an encyclopaedic view, preferring to focus on the challenges thrown up by the interaction - and to a great extent the clash - between Europe's liberal outlook and those of the large Moslem migrant communities in the UK, France, Belgium and Sweden. And yes, terrorism is examined, but so too are many other dimensions of this complex matter.

An
English-subtitled version, blending all four parts into a single file of nearly 3 hours duration, is on YouTube. The four separate original parts and their
titles:

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Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media often report them inadequately. Our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, in New York, in Madrid, in London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening. This ongoing war is killing us.